Something of a superfluous review, this, (what, even more than usual?, I hear you cry), in that neither love nor money will now get you the March issue of premier tunes-that-go-boom magazine Muzik, to which this was sellotaped. Which is a shame, because here is a darn fine primer in some of the best tunes a decade of dance culture has proffered.

After youve got past the opening track, Kariyas dire "Let Me Love You For Tonight" (dance music with words? Get out of Denver, baby!) , "Old Skool Classics" more than lives up to its moniker. No record collection can have too many occurrences of thumptastic tracks like A Guy Called Geralds "Voodoo Ray", Slams "Positive Education" (which contains what sounds like a Darth Vader sample - I suppose if Id misspent more of my youth studying the trilogy Id know), (Joey) Beltrams "Energy Flash", Hardfloors madly acidic "Acperience" (which still makes my head buzz every time I hear it), Leftfields evergreen "Song Of Life" and Sueno Latinos eponymous classic, staple of just about every mix CD ever.

New discoveries here include further evidence of the Godlike genius of Derrick May in the form of Rhythm Is Rhythms "Nude Photo", the fairly explanatory "Acid Thunder" by Fast Eddie, and the Jungle Brothers inventing hip house by rapping atop Todd Terrys "Can You Party?" on "Ill House You". Best bit, however, is Joe Smooths "Promised Land", the exception that proves the rule postulated above that all vocal dance tracks are a waste of recycled vinylite...an uplifting, hands-in-the-air positivity-drenched anthem along similar lines as Sterling Voids "Its Alright" (yup, the same one the Pet Shop Boys covered), it shows how sometimes (only sometimes, mind you) words can say more than a rackful of hot-wired TB303s. Heck, the first forty seconds of this track are probably as soulful as machine music deserves to get: on a scale of 1 to Franklin, its at least an Otis.

What else can I say? 73 minutes of almost total brilliance stuck on the front of a magazine. My spies tell me that, round these parts, all stocks of Februarys Muzik had vanished three days after publication day, and deservedly so: this really is as good as it gets.